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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-23012025-260396
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 355]
NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025/MAGHA 1, 1946
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)
ORDER
New Delhi, the 16th January, 2025
S.O. 358(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Bureau of Indian
Standards Act, 2016 (11 of 2016), the Central Government, after consulting the Bureau of Indian
Standards, is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, hereby makes the
following Order further to amend the Refrigerating Appliances (Quality Control) Order, 2020, namely: -
1. (1) This Order may be called the Refrigerating Appliances (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2025.
(2) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Refrigerating Appliances (Quality Control) Order, 2020, in paragraph 2, after the proviso, the
following provisos shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided further that nothing in this Order shall apply to imports of components of refrigerating
appliances by a manufacturer of goods and article certified by the Bureau or manufacturer who has applied
to the Bureau for certification for the relevant goods and articles, for exports subject to the condition that
the manufacturer furnishes a self-declaration in this regard in its letter-head signed by its authorised
signatory to the Central Government mentioning the invoice number and other relevant details of the
import consignment and an undertaking that the components so imported shall not be put to any other use
or sold in the domestic market and the manufacturer shall maintain the record of such goods and articles
imported and its product for verification or audit by the Government authorities concerned:
Provided also that nothing in this Order shall apply for two hundred numbers of goods or articles imported
per year for the purpose of research and development by a manufacturer of refrigerating
appliances certified by the Bureau or a manufacturer who has applied to the Bureau for certification for the
relevant goods and articles, subject to the condition that such imported goods and articles shall not be sold
commercially and can be disposed of as a scrap and the manufacturer shall maintain a year-wise record of
such goods or articles and furnish to the Central Government".
[F. No. P-29026/3/2019-LEI]
SANJIV, Jt. Secy.
Note.- The principal Order was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-
section (ii) vide notification number S.O. 4489(E), dated the 10th December, 2020 and amended vide
notification number S.O. 5339 (E), dated the 22nd December, 2021 and notification number S.O. 5850 (Ε),
dated the 14th December, 2022.